Advisor, Economic Evaluations (P3)

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Summary

Save the Children recognizes that achieving our ‘Ambition for Children 2030’ of scaling our impact for the children and families we work with will require a stronger evidence base about the value for money (VfM) of our program delivery of outputs and outcomes.

The Advisor for Economic Evaluations will implement economic evaluations (“value for money” analyses) and support research for programs across Save the Children’s technical sectors. Reporting to the Lead Advisor for Economics and Data Analytics, the Advisor will work with technical advisors, country program and finance teams, and counterparts in Save the Children International to generate, use and manage evidence about programmatic interventions with respect to cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The Advisor will lead the design of economic evaluations, and support colleagues implementing economic evaluations that accurately gather and analyze cost data to be used for program learning at multiple levels of the agency. The Advisor will ensure the use of best-practice VfM tools and processes at all levels, to support Save the Children making evidence-based decisions about how our resources are best used, beginning with project design and extending through the life of our programs. The Advisor will help to communicate and build awareness about the significance of cost research and evidence across the organization.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Technical Assistance for Economic Evaluations (65%)

• Support requests from country and regional offices for technical assistance related to economic evaluations.
• Provide formal and informal capacity building on economic evaluations to colleagues, including partners, for example through mentoring, coaching, training, or technical guidance.
• Proactively collaborate with business development teams to embed key priority research questions, economic concepts, evidence, analytical tools, and VfM methodologies into proposals and evaluations, through early engagement in project design.
• Support analysis of the value for money (VfM) for Save the Children’s international programs portfolio – with particular focus on cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness data.
• In line with sector best practice on economic evaluation, advance the use VfM techniques and evidence in project design and program implementation decision making.
• Work collaboratively with technical advisors, colleagues and partners in country offices, and the global economic evaluations team, in line with the strategic priorities set out in our global Research, Evidence and Learning Agenda.

Development of Technical Best Practices and Thought Leadership (30%)

• In collaboration with other team members, strengthen and grow Save the Children’s capacity to use and conduct high-quality economic analysis that generates new evidence to address Agency priorities and global evidence gaps, including through the development and promotion of movement-wide tools, guidance and processes.
• Proactively share data, information, and learning through blogs, contributions to agency newsletters, “lunch and learn” sessions, and other internal dissemination outlets.
• Keep appraised of internal and external stakeholder demands in relation to economic evaluation and VfM (including for program management and learning, policy advocacy, external communications, and donor accountability), and of relevant external thinking and practice in this area.
• Drive efforts to use economic evaluation and value for money analysis to promote a learning culture that identifies new / enhanced approaches to amplify Save the Children’s impact, and considers economic factors in our policy and advocacy efforts.
• Participate in Save the Children’s VfM and MERLA (monitoring, evaluation, research, learning & accountability) communities of practice

Other (5%)

• Represent Save the Children when engaging in external forums and communities of practice related to VfM and MERLA.
• Contribute to team and wider divisional meetings and occasional corporate initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Proven ability to plan and coordinate research and data analysis projects
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Proven facilitation, teaching and coaching skills on evaluation, research and learning, preferably on economic evaluation, including design, data collection, data entry, analysis, and reporting, across different cultures and contexts, using both face-to-face and remote facilitation
• Demonstrated skills and experience in analyzing complex data, including programmatic outputs, outcomes and financial data, and interpreting results
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Proven skills in economic evaluation and/or VfM analysis with international development projects; preferably familiar with the ‘4Es’ value for money framework, either as a practitioner or knowledgeable commissioner/ manager of technical experts
• Willing and able to travel, primarily internationally, up to 20% of the time
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize, synthesize and present data and technical information to non-technical audiences
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred Qualifications

• Skills in data visualization (PowerBI or Tableau)
• Proficiency in French, Arabic, or Spanish
• Proven proficiency using data analysis programs (e.g. SPSS, STATA, Dioptra)

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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